I find that working with gadgets is a mixed bag, especially when I stare at a screen back at home for several hours. Thinking time is critical, and it’s easy to confuse clanging on a keyboard with the cycles of thinking and reflection. At least for me, I like uninterrupted time to go on walks, hand write, and sketch ideas, and read. Like a savage from the 1600s. Been experimenting with a minimal tech and AI travel setup this latest trip to San Francisco. Just a hardcover book, a Remarkable tablet, and a phone. Like a savage from the 2000s. Might not use this on every trip, but it’s nice to not have a laptop staring at you, begging you to open it up and spend more tokens. #tokenminning
I've been throwing this idea around as well. I've thought of getting a notebook like my kids used to use for grammar in grade school and just writing things there, doing math by hand, and other such things. Constantly staring at a screen has become tiresome lately.
Hardcover books are too heavy for me to lug around when travelling. But totally get travelling without a laptop!
The time spent away from the screen is usually when my better ideas start to develop. Long walks in nature definitely help.
Best investment last year. A decent pen. Scribbling away on a piece of paper.
but but but if you aren't tokenmaxxxxxxxingggggg....
Yeah! I feel this. Some of the best thinking can be away from a keyboard.
more like a psychopath…
What book earned a place on your trip?
I get my best ideas while walking. So I've set up a connection between WhatsApp and my AI Agent Hermes. Now I send voice messages from time to time via WhatsApp, and Hermes gets to work for me, running locally on my hardware at home while I'm outside enjoying the sun. The whole point of agentic AI is that I work less and the AI agent works more. Or is it? 😄